An Interesting Encounter at the Clerks Office

Today I finished the final touches on my Motion To Dismiss for the "SLAPP" the Tangredi's filed against us, and I had a very interesting thing happen to me at the County Clerks Office, as my title would suggest.

First, after being all proud of myself staying up all night writing my motion, I went to the office and submitted it only to realize that I didn't put a date on it for the motion to be heard. I'm still learning about the legal process and, unfortunately, without a lawyer it's easy to miss or forget certain details if you haven't been drug through this sort of thing before, or if you don't have a lot of money and time on your hands (like some people?) to sit on the internet all day and google legal stuff. No big deal, the first clerk I talked to was very helpful and told me exactly what I needed to do to set the hearing date and before you know it, I'm back at the office to finish the task. This is when my interesting encounter happened.

After standing for only a few minutes, a clerk approached the counter and asked how they could help me. After stating my purpose they asked, "Are you a Tangredi?"
I said "No, I'm one of the many defendants."

To paraphrase how the rest of the conversation went, they then told me that they (and apparently many other clerks) were already aware of the suit and knew of how many defendants were involved. They then commented on how it was an "interesting case," and I told them they didn't even know the half of it. After a few moments of cordial conversation, the clerk gave me a very helpful resource to aid in gaining further information regarding court proceedings, and even the proper ediquette preferred by each judge in the courtroom. (I don't like chewing gum in my courtroom, etc)

I know I haven't exactly been reaching out to any of the other defendants yet, I've been tied up in preparing my motion and concentrated most of my time preparing my own defense, but I hope this to change soon. My purpose here is to help all defendants that are in need of it, or exchange information that can be beneficial or just plain funny with anybody interested. So, in efforts to not divulge too much information to just ANYBODY reading this blog, please contact me if you would like the website the clerk gave me. I'll do my best to determine if you are who you say you are and give you the link.

Consequently, I understand how cautious some of you other defendants may be about contacting me, given the nature of the predicament we find ourselves in and all. That is why I set this blog up with an e-mail address hosted by a friend of mine who is a musician that I also write and perform with. I encourage you to go to his page, listen to some tunes if you'd like, and determine for yourselves if I am who I claim to be. (this is not a shameless attempt at self promotion by the way)

Furthermore, for those among us that like to sue the pants off anybody they feel has wronged them in any way, I'm going to save you a good deal of time and effort by saying it is perfectly within the rights of any County Clerk to administer aid to someone if it is purely regarding a procedural matter. This is something that has been a great deal of help to me throughout this process already and you shouldn't go wasting time trying to sue a government worker for helping a citizen in this fashion, which I'm sure was probably one of your first thoughts already...